How To Perform Route Planning With Load Capacity (cVRP)

Sections

• Introduction
• Settings
  • Vehicle Setup
  • Job Settings
• Usage
• Example

Introduction

Currently, we only support the use of the Pallets field to define the capacity of your jobs and your vehicle. (If you have another unit of measurement such as weight or volume, you may rename the Pallet field accordingly) under Settings > Job > Fields.

Settings

Vehicle Setup

1. Navigate to Vehicles.
2. Open up the vehicle form by either:
   1. Click on the Add Vehicle button.
   2. Click on the corresponding row of the vehicle.
3. Fill in the Vehicle Capacity. this field only accepts integer
4. Click Save when done. ​

Job Settings

1. Navigate to Settings > Job > Fields. ​
2. Enable Pallets.
3. Click Save when done.

Usage

1. When creating a job, input the Pallets value. this field only accepts integer
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2. Proceed to Route Planning.
   1. Plan Single Route
   2. Plan Multiple Routes

Example

• Using the following:
  • 3 vehicles each with Vehicle Capacity of 10.
  • Job with the following loads.

    D.O. No.	Load
    D1	1
    D2	2
    D3	3
    D4	4
    D5	3
    D6	6
    D7	7
    D8	3

• After planning, 3 runs would be generated each not exceeding the Vehicle Capacity of the respective vehicles.

  Run	D.O. No.	Load	Total Load Per Run
  1	D3	3	10
  	D1	1
  	D4	4
  	D2	2
  2	D7	7	10
  	D5	3
  3	D6	6	9
  	D8	3

Limitations

1. This feature best caters to routes that consists of only Delivery jobs or only Collection jobs. (This cVRP feature is unable to cater to a mixture of Collection and Delivery jobs as load capacities of both job types will be summed up progressively in the route.)
2. As such, this feature will not be enabled for users on courier mode or special courier mode.